TEDx Talks
How to Win the War Against Bullying | Israel "Izzy" Kalman | TEDxBucharest
Bullying is one of today's greatest issues when it comes to our interactions with the ones around us, a real epidemic nowadays. And while we are fighting against it, it seems like we are loosing the war.
Izzy Kalman talks and demonstrates on stage how the best solution to bullying is using freedom of speech, mandated by the golden rule of treating others like you want others to treat you. We are all entitled to live a life in which nobody should treat us badly.
Izzy Kalman, MS, is a Nationally Certified School Psychologist and psychotherapist with four decades of work experience. He has developed a quick, fun and powerful method for teaching people how to solve interpersonal problems, including bullying, without anyone’s help and without getting anyone in trouble.
He is director of Bullies to Buddies, Inc, creator of the website and author of a book for young adults called Bullies to Buddies: How to turn your enemies into friends, as well as a number of other publications on bullying for kids and adults. Izzy writes a Psychology Today blog called Resilience to Bullying, and has been the world’s foremost critic of the anti-bullying movement, warning since the Columbine massacre that the “war against bullying” will backfire. History has been confirming his predictions. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx